A special discount offer to PopTech 2003 for IP List Members

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 00:03:09 -0700
> From: Andrew Zolli <azolli () earthlink net>
> Subject: A special discount offer to PopTech 2003 for IP List Members
> To: dave () farber net
>
> Dear Dave:
>
> I am a longtime, loyal and appreciative reader of the Interesting People 
> list. I have a significant and relelvant offer that I'd like to extend to 
> other IP list members regarding this year's PopTech conference. I pass 
> this along to you - if you think it is appropriate, feel free to post it. 
> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 917-495-2950.
>
> Yours,
>
> Andrew Zolli
> PopTech 2003 Programming Chair
>
> ---
>
> Dear Fellow IPers:
> I am writing to you today with a very special offer for fellow members of 
> the Interesting People list.
>
> For the past few months, I have been programming the PopTech conference, 
> an one-of-a-kind intellectual and creative conference held in Maine in the 
> fall. This conference is something I'm tremendously proud of, and now I 
> have an opportunity to share my ongoing efforts with people on the list
>
> This October, in the beautiful village of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns 
> = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Camden, Maine, there is 
> an *extraordinary* conference taking place, called PopTech. 
> (<http://www.poptech.com/>www.poptech.com) Now in its seventh year, this 
> event was started by the inventor of Ethernet, Bob Metcalfe, and the 
> former CEO of Apple Computer, John Sculley. The conference brings together 
> some of the world s most important thinkers and innovators for a weekend 
> to explore the future, and in particular explore the impact of technology 
> on people, society an the planet.
>
> In the past, PopTech has been ranked as one of the two or three best 
> conferences in the United States; many consider the best thing they ve 
> ever been to. It's the kind of dream event you would put together if you 
> could take the best of the conferences you've been to, and the most 
> interesting people you've met, and put them in a single place to explore 
> the future.  It's not just that the speaker levels are very high (this 
> year will bring at least one Nobel prize winner to the stage), or that the 
> audience members are of a similarly high quality. It's that there is a 
> real sense of 'soul' to Poptech. It's hard to convince someone of this via 
> the sterile medium of email, but that s the best way to describe it.
>
> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" 
> />So, who is going to be there? People that I have always wanted to see 
> together, such as:
>
> * Geoffrey Ballard, the 'father' of the hydrogen fuel cell
> * Constance Adams, the first architect to be hired by NASA to build 
> 'liveable' spacecraft.
> * Larry Lessig, head of the Stanford Center for Internet & Society
> * Thomas Barnett, Leading theorist on the future of warfare at the Pentagon
> * Juan Enriquez, author of As The Future Catches You and head of the HBS 
> Life Sciences Program
> * Virginia Postrel, critic and author of the forthcoming The Substance of 
> Style
> * Golan Levin, digital artist extraordinaire
> * Aubrey de Grey, pioneering Cambridge University anti-aging researcher
>
> And many, many more. Go to the website to check out the still developing 
> program, which will ultimately feature more than 36 amazing speakers who, 
> I promise, will blow your mind. I know you will have the time of your life.
>
> I am absolutely certain that PopTech is going to sell out this year, and 
> it is very important to me to make sure that some IPers get to attend. So 
> before the marketing kicked into high gear, I had a limited number of 
> tickets to PopTech 'set aside' for a 'Friends of Andrew' discount. The 
> discount is *substantial* - $400 off the $1495 admission fee. For the 
> experience you're going to have, this is a steal.
>
> This offer is made to *you* directly - please don't pass it around beyond 
> the IPers list. To be fair to everyone else, this offer is good only until 
> June 30, at which time my 'reserved' seats are opened to the general 
> admission.
>
> To take advantage of this offer, visit the Web site via this URL:
>
> <http://www.poptech.org/index.cfm?friend=3wr85yZ>http://www.poptech.org/index.cfm?friend=3wr85yZ
>
> When you click on "Register" you'll see the discount has already been 
> deducted.
>
> You should know that, like everyone involved in the conference, I am 
> working on this project for 'the love of the game'. I don't get paid, and 
> have no incentive other than to indulge my deep curiosity about the 
> future, and to put on the conference that I have always wanted to attend. 
> Nor do I have any economic incentive to make this offer to you.
>
> There are things we do for love, and things we do for money. I am doing 
> this thing for love, and I hope you'll be able to share in it.
>
> Yours,
>
> Andrew Zolli
> PopTech 2003 Programming Chair
>
> PS> If you have any questions about the program, please feel free to 
> contact me at 917.495.2950.
>
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> plug:
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> <http://www.poptech.com/>POPTECH 2003<http://www.poptech.com/>
>
> will blow
> your mind.


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